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0.16
0.16 (unreleased)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Features:
- Complete redesign of the library home and playlist pages (#284)
- Expose ActivityPub actors for users (#317)
- Implemented a basic but functionnal Github-like search on federated tracks
list (#344)
- Internationalized interface as well as translations for Arabic, French,
Esperanto, Italian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish (#161, #167)
- Users can now upload an avatar in their settings page (#257)
Enhancements:
- Added feedback when creating/updating radio (#302)
- Apply restrictions to username characters during signup
- Autoselect best language based on browser configuration (#386)
- Can now order tracks on federated track list (#326)
- Can now relaunch pending import jobs from the web interface (#323)
- Ensure we do not display pagination on single pages (#334)
- Ensure we have sane defaults for MEDIA_ROOT, STATIC_ROOT and
MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH in the deployment .env file (#350)
- Make some space for the volume slider to allow precise control (#318)
- Removed django-cacheops dependency
- Store track artist and album artist separately (#237) Better handling of
tracks with a different artist than the album artist
- The navigation bar of Library is now fixed (#375)
- Use thumbnails for avatars and covers to reduce bandwidth
Bugfixes:
- Ensure 750 permissions on CI artifacts (#332)
- Ensure images are not cropped in queue (#337)
- Ensure we do not import artists with empty names (#351)
- Fix notifications not closing when clicking on the cross (#366)
- Fix the most annoying offset in the whole fediverse (#369)
- Fixed persistent message in playlist modal (#304)
- Fixed unfiltered results in favorites API (#384)
- Raise a warning instead of crashing when getting a broken path in file import
(#138)
- Remove parallelization of uploads during import to avoid crashing small
servers (#382)
- Subsonic API login is now case insensitive (#339)
- Validate Date header in HTTP Signatures (#328)
Documentation:
- Added troubleshotting and technical overview documentation (#256)
- Arch Linux installation steps
- Document that users can use Ultrasonic on Android (#316)
- Fixed a couple of typos
- Some cosmetic improvements to the doc
i18n:
- Arabic translation (!302)
- Polish translation (!304)
Library home and playlist page overhaul
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The library home page have been completely redesigned to include:
- other users activity (listenings, playlists and favorites)
- recently imported albums
We think this new version showcases more music in a more useful way, let us know
what you think about it!
The playlist page have been updated as well.
Internationalized interface
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
After months of work, we're proud to announce our interface is now ready
for internationalization.
Translators have already started the work of translating Funkwhale in 8 different languages,
and we're ready to add more as needed.
You can easily get involved at https://translate.funkwhale.audio/engage/funkwhale/
Better handling of tracks with a different artist than the album artist
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Some tracks involve a different artist than the album artist (e.g. a featuring)
and Funkwhale has been known to do weird things when importing such tracks, resulting
in albums that contained a single track, for instance.
The situation should be improved with this release, as Funkwhale is now able to
store separately the track and album artist, and display it properly in the interface.
Users now have an ActivityPub Actor [Manual action required]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In the process of implementing federation for user activity such as listening
history, we are now making user profiles (a.k.a. ActivityPub actors) available through federation.
This does not means the federation is working, but this is a needed step to implement it.
Those profiles will be created automatically for new users, but you have to run a command
to create them for existing users.
On docker setups::
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py script create_actors --no-input
On non-docker setups::
python manage.py script create_actors --no-input
This should only take a few seconds to run. It is safe to interrupt the process or rerun it multiple times.
Image thumbnails [Manual action required]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To reduce bandwidth usage on slow or limited connexions and improve performance
in general, we now use smaller images in the front-end. For instance, if you have
an album cover with a 1000x1000 pixel size, we will create smaller
versions of this image (50x50, 200x200, 400x400) and reference those resized version
when we don't actually need the original image.
Thumbnail will be created automatically for new objects, however, you have
to launch a manual command to deal with existing ones.
On docker setups::
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py script create_image_variations --no-input
On non-docker setups::
python manage.py script create_image_variations --no-input
This should be quite fast but may take up to a few minutes depending on the number
of albums you have in database. It is safe to interrupt the process or rerun it multiple times.
Improved search on federated tracks list
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Having a powerful but easy-to-use search is important but difficult to achieve, especially
if you do not want to have a real complex search interface.
Github does a pretty good job with that, using a structured but simple query system
(See https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues-and-pull-requests/#search-only-issues-or-pull-requests).
This release implements a limited but working subset of this query system. You can use it only on the federated
tracks list (/manage/federation/tracks) at the moment, but depending on feedback it will be rolled-out on other pages as well.
This is the type of query you can run:
- ``hello world``: search for "hello" and "world" in all the available fields
- ``hello in:artist`` search for results where artist name is "hello"
- ``spring in:artist,album`` search for results where artist name or album title contain "spring"
- ``artist:hello`` search for results where artist name equals "hello"
- ``artist:"System of a Down" domain:instance.funkwhale`` search for results where artist name equals "System of a Down" and inside "instance.funkwhale" library
Ensure MEDIA_ROOT, STATIC_ROOT and MUSIC_DIRECTORY_* are set explicitely [Manual action required]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In our default .env file, MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT were commented by default, causing
some deployment issues on non-docker setups when people forgot to uncomment them.
From now on, those variables are uncommented, and will also be used on docker setups
to mount the volumes automatically in the docker-compose.yml file. This has been a source
of headache as well in some deployments, where you had to update both the .env file and
the compose file.
This also applies to in-place paths (MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH and MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH),
whose values are now used directly to set up the proper Docker volumes.
This will only affect new deployments though. If you want to benefit from this on an
existing instance, do a backup of your ``.env`` and ``docker-compose.yml`` files and apply the following changes:
- Ensure ``MEDIA_ROOT`` is uncommented in your .env file and match the absolute path where media files are stored
on your host (``/srv/funkwhale/data/media`` by default)
- Ensure ``STATIC_ROOT`` is uncommented in your .env file and match the absolute path where static files are stored
on your host (``/srv/funkwhale/data/static`` by default)
- If you use in-place import:
- Ensure MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH is uncommented and set to ``/music``
- Ensure MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH is uncommented and set to the absolute path on your host were your music files
are stored (``/srv/funkwhale/data/music`` by default)
- Edit your docker-compose.yml file to reflect the changes:
- Search for volumes (there should be two occurences) that contains ``/app/funkwhale_api/media`` on the right side, and
replace the whole line with ``- "${MEDIA_ROOT}:${MEDIA_ROOT}"``
- Search for a volume that contains ``/app/staticfiles`` on the right side, and
replace the whole line with ``- "${STATIC_ROOT}:${STATIC_ROOT}"``
- If you use in-place import, search for volumes (there should be two occurences) that contains ``/music:ro`` on the right side, and
replace the whole line with ``- "${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH}:${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH}:ro"``
In the end, the ``volumes`` directives of your containers should look like that::
...
celeryworker
volumes:
- "${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH}:${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH}:ro"
- "${MEDIA_ROOT}:${MEDIA_ROOT}"
...
api:
volumes:
- "${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH}:${MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH}:ro"
- "${MEDIA_ROOT}:${MEDIA_ROOT}"
- "${STATIC_ROOT}:${STATIC_ROOT}"
- ./front/dist:/frontend
...
Removed Cacheops dependency
---------------------------
We removed one of our dependency named django-cacheops. It was unly used in a few places,
and not playing nice with other dependencies.
You can safely remove this dependency in your environment with ``pip uninstall django-cacheops`` if you're
not using docker.
You can also safely remove any ``CACHEOPS_ENABLED`` setting from your environment file.

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0.15
0.15 (2018-06-24)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Features:
- Added admin interface to manage import requests (#190)
- Added replace flag during import to replace already present tracks with a new
version of their track file (#222)
- Funkwhale's front-end can now point to any instance (#327) Removed front-end
and back-end coupling
- Management interface for users (#212)
- New invite system (#248) New invite system
Enhancements:
- Added "TV" to the list of highlighted words during YouTube import (#154)
- Command line import now accepts unlimited args (#242)
Bugfixes:
- Expose track files date in manage API (#307)
- Fixed current track restart/hiccup when shuffling queue, deleting track from
queue or reordering (#310)
- Include user's current private playlists on playlist list (#302)
- Remove link to generic radios, since they don't have detail pages (#324)
Documentation:
- Document that Funkwhale may be installed with YunoHost (#325)
- Documented a saner layout with symlinks for in-place imports (#254)
- Upgrade documentation now use the correct user on non-docker setups (#265)
Invite system
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On closed instances, it has always been a little bit painful to create accounts
by hand for new users. This release solve that by adding invitations.
You can generate invitation codes via the "users" admin interface (you'll find a
link in the sidebar). Those codes are valid for 14 days, and can be used once
to create a new account on the instance, even if registrations are closed.
By default, we generate a random code for invitations, but you can also use custom codes
if you need to print them or make them fancier ;)
Invitations generation and management requires the "settings" permission.

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0.14.2
0.14.2 (2018-06-16)
-------------------
.. warning::
This release contains a fix for a permission issue. You should upgrade
as soon as possible. Read the changelog below for more details.
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Enhancements:
- Added feedback on shuffle button (#262)
- Added multiple warnings in the documentation that you should never run
makemigrations yourself (#291)
- Album cover served in http (#264)
- Apache2 reverse proxy now supports websockets (tested with Apache 2.4.25)
(!252)
- Display file size in human format during file upload (#289)
- Switch from BSD-3 licence to AGPL-3 licence (#280)
Bugfixes:
- Ensure radios can only be edited and deleted by their owners (#311)
- Fixed admin menu not showing after login (#245)
- Fixed broken pagination in Subsonic API (#295)
- Fixed duplicated websocket connexion on timeline (#287)
Documentation:
- Improved documentation about in-place imports setup (#298)
Other:
- Added Black and flake8 checks in CI to ensure consistent code styling and
formatting (#297)
- Added bug and feature issue templates (#299)
Permission issues on radios
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Because of an error in the way we checked user permissions on radios,
public radios could be deleted by any logged-in user, even if they were not
the owner of the radio.
We recommend instances owners to upgrade as fast as possible to avoid any abuse
and data loss.
Funkwhale is now licenced under AGPL-3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Following the recent switch made by PixelFed
(https://github.com/dansup/pixelfed/issues/143), we decided along with
the community to relicence Funkwhale under the AGPL-3 licence. We did this
switch for various reasons:
- This is better aligned with other fediverse software
- It prohibits anyone to distribute closed-source and proprietary forks of Funkwhale
As end users and instance owners, this does not change anything. You can
continue to use Funkwhale exactly as you did before :)
Apache support for websocket
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Up until now, our Apache2 configuration was not working with websockets. This is now
solved by adding this at the beginning of your Apache2 configuration file::
Define funkwhale-api-ws ws://localhost:5000
And this, before the "/api" block::
# Activating WebSockets
ProxyPass "/api/v1/instance/activity" ${funkwhale-api-ws}/api/v1/instance/activity
Websockets may not be supported in older versions of Apache2. Be sure to upgrade to the latest version available.
Serving album covers in https (Apache2 proxy)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Two issues are addressed here. The first one was about Django replying with
mixed content (http) when queried for covers. Setting up the `X-Forwarded-Proto`
allows Django to know that the client is using https, and that the reply must
be https as well.
Second issue was a problem of permission causing Apache a denied access to
album cover folder. It is solved by adding another block for this path in
the Apache configuration file for funkwhale.
Here is how to modify your `funkwhale.conf` apache2 configuration::
<VirtualHost *:443>
...
#Add this new line
RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
...
# Add this new block below the other <Directory/> blocks
# replace /srv/funkwhale/data/media with the path to your media directory
# if you're not using the standard layout.
<Directory /srv/funkwhale/data/media/albums>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
...
</VirtualHost>
About the makemigrations warning
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You may sometimes get the following warning while applying migrations::
"Your models have changes that are not yet reflected in a migration, and so won't be applied."
This is a warning, not an error, and it can be safely ignored.
Never run the ``makemigrations`` command yourself.

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0.14.1
0.14.1 (2018-06-06)
-------------------
Upgrade instructions are available at https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Enhancements:
- Display server version in the footer (#270)
- fix_track_files will now update files with bad mimetype (and not only the one
with no mimetype) (#273)
- Huge performance boost (~x5 to x7) during CLI import that queries MusicBrainz
(#288)
- Removed alpha-state transcoding support (#271)
Bugfixes:
- Broken logging statement during import error (#274)
- Broken search bar on library home (#278)
- Do not crash when importing track with an artist that do not match the
release artist (#237)
- Do not crash when tag contains multiple uuids with a / separator (#267)
- Ensure we do not store bad mimetypes (such as application/x-empty) (#266)
- Fix broken "play all" button that played only 25 tracks (#281)
- Fixed broken track download modal (overflow and wrong URL) (#239)
- Removed hardcoded size limit in file upload widget (#275)
Documentation:
- Added warning about _protected/music location in nginx configuration (#247)
Removed alpha-state transcoding (#271)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A few months ago, a basic transcoding feature was implemented. Due to the way
this feature was designed, it was slow, CPU intensive on the server side,
and very tightly coupled to the reverse-proxy configuration, preventing
it to work Apache2, for instance. It was also not compatible with Subsonic clients.
Based on that, we're currently removing support for transcoding
**in its current state**. The work on a better designed transcoding feature
can be tracked in https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/issues/272.
You don't have to do anything on your side, but you may want to remove
the now obsolete configuration from your reverse proxy file (nginx only)::
# Remove those blocks:
# transcode cache
proxy_cache_path /tmp/funkwhale-transcode levels=1:2 keys_zone=transcode:10m max_size=1g inactive=7d;
# Transcoding logic and caching
location = /transcode-auth {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
# needed so we can authenticate transcode requests, but still
# cache the result
internal;
set $query '';
# ensure we actually pass the jwt to the underlytin auth url
if ($request_uri ~* "[^\?]+\?(.*)$") {
set $query $1;
}
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/api/v1/trackfiles/viewable/?$query;
proxy_pass_request_body off;
proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
}
location /api/v1/trackfiles/transcode/ {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
# this block deals with authenticating and caching transcoding
# requests. Caching is heavily recommended as transcoding
# is a CPU intensive process.
auth_request /transcode-auth;
if ($args ~ (.*)jwt=[^&]*(.*)) {
set $cleaned_args $1$2;
}
proxy_cache_key "$scheme$request_method$host$uri$is_args$cleaned_args";
proxy_cache transcode;
proxy_cache_valid 200 7d;
proxy_ignore_headers "Set-Cookie";
proxy_hide_header "Set-Cookie";
add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api;
}
# end of transcoding logic

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0.14
0.14 (2018-06-02)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Features:
- Admins can now configure default permissions that will be granted to all
registered users (#236)
- Files management interface for users with "library" permission (#223)
- New action table component for quick and efficient batch actions (#228) This
is implemented on the federated tracks pages, but will be included in other
pages as well depending on the feedback.
Enhancements:
- Added a new "upload" permission that allows user to launch import and view
their own imports (#230)
- Added Support for OggTheora in import.
- Autoremove media files on model instance deletion (#241)
- Can now import a whole remote library at once thanks to new Action Table
component (#164)
- Can now use album covers from flac/mp3 metadata and separate file in track
directory (#219)
- Implemented getCovertArt in Subsonic API to serve album covers (#258)
- Implemented scrobble endpoint of subsonic API, listenings are now tracked
correctly from third party apps that use this endpoint (#260)
- Retructured music API to increase performance and remove useless endpoints
(#224)
Bugfixes:
- Consistent constraints/checks for URL size (#207)
- Display proper total number of tracks on radio detail (#225)
- Do not crash on flac import if musicbrainz tags are missing (#214)
- Empty save button in radio builder (#226)
- Ensure anonymous users can use the app if the instance is configured
accordingly (#229)
- Ensure inactive users cannot get auth tokens (#218) This was already the case
bug we missed some checks
- File-upload import now supports Flac files (#213)
- File-upload importer should now work properly, assuming files are tagged
(#106)
- Fixed a few broken translations strings (#227)
- Fixed broken ordering in front-end lists (#179)
- Fixed ignored page_size paremeter on artist and favorites list (#240)
- Read ID3Tag Tracknumber from TRCK (#220)
- We now fetch album covers regardless of the import methods (#231)
Documentation:
- Added missing subsonic configuration block in deployment vhost files (#249)
- Moved upgrade doc under install doc in TOC (#251)
Other:
- Removed acoustid support, as the integration was buggy and error-prone (#106)
Files management interface
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the first bit of an ongoing work that will span several releases, to
bring more powerful library management features to Funkwhale. This iteration
includes a basic file management interface where users with the "library"
permission can list and search available files, order them using
various criterias (size, bitrate, duration...) and delete them.
New "upload" permission
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This new permission is helpful if you want to give upload/import rights
to some users, but don't want them to be able to manage the library as a whole:
although there are no controls yet for managing library in the fron-end,
subsequent release will introduce management interfaces for artists, files,
etc.
Because of that, users with the "library" permission will have much more power,
and will also be able to remove content from the platform. On the other hand,
users with the "upload" permission will only have the ability to add new
content.
Also, this release also includes a new feature called "default permissions":
those are permissions that are granted to every users on the platform.
On public/open instances, this will play well with the "upload" permission
since everyone will be able to contribute to the instance library without
an admin giving the permission to every single user.
Smarter album cover importer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In earlier versions, covers where only imported when launching a YouTube import.
Starting from this release, covers will be imported regardless of the import mode
(file upload, youtube-dl, CLI, in-place...). Funkwhale will look for covers
in the following order:
1. In the imported file itself (FLAC/MP3 only)
2. In a cover.jpg or cover.png in the file directory
3. By fetching cover art from Musibrainz, assuming the file is tagged correctly
This will only work for newly imported tracks and albums though. In the future,
we may offer an option to refetch album covers from the interface, but in the
meantime, you can use the following snippet:
.. code-block:: python
# Store this in /tmp/update_albums.py
from funkwhale_api.music.models import Album, TrackFile
from funkwhale_api.music.tasks import update_album_cover
albums_without_covers = Album.objects.filter(cover='')
total = albums_without_covers.count()
print('Found {} albums without cover'.format(total))
for i, album in enumerate(albums_without_covers.iterator()):
print('[{}/{}] Fetching cover for {}...'.format(i+1, total, album.title))
f = TrackFile.objects.filter(track__album=album).filter(source__startswith='file://').first()
update_album_cover(album, track_file=f)
Then launch it::
# docker setups
cat /tmp/update_albums.py | docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py shell -i python
# non-docker setups
source /srv/funkwhale/load_env
source /srv/funkwhale/virtualenv/bin/activate
cat /tmp/update_albums.py | python manage.py shell -i python
# cleanup
rm /tmp/update_albums.py
.. note::
Depending on your number of albums, the previous snippet may take some time
to execute. You can interrupt it at any time using ctrl-c and relaunch it later,
as it's idempotent.
Music API changes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This release includes an API break. Even though the API is advertised
as unstable, and not documented, here is a brief explanation of the change in
case you are using the API in a client or in a script. Summary of the changes:
- ``/api/v1/artists`` does not includes a list of tracks anymore. It was to heavy
to return all of this data all the time. You can get all tracks for an
artist using ``/api/v1/tracks?artist=artist_id``
- Additionally, ``/api/v1/tracks`` now support an ``album`` filter to filter
tracks matching an album
- ``/api/v1/artists/search``, ``/api/v1/albums/search`` and ``/api/v1/tracks/search``
endpoints are removed. Use ``/api/v1/{artists|albums|tracks}/?q=yourquery``
instead. It's also more powerful, since you can combine search with other
filters and ordering options.
- ``/api/v1/requests/import-requests/search`` endpoint is removed as well.
Use ``/api/v1/requests/import-requests/?q=yourquery``
instead. It's also more powerful, since you can combine search with other
filters and ordering options.
Of course, the front-end was updated to work with the new API, so this should
not impact end-users in any way, apart from slight performance gains.
.. note::
The API is still not stable and may evolve again in the future. API freeze
will come at a later point.
Flac files imports via upload
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You have nothing to do to benefit from this, however, since Flac files
tend to be a lot bigger than other files, you may want to increase the
``client_max_body_size`` value in your Nginx configuration if you plan
to upload flac files.
Missing subsonic configuration bloc in vhost files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Because of a missing bloc in the sample Nginx and Apache configurations,
instances that were deployed after the 0.13 release are likely to be unable
to answer to Subsonic clients (the missing bits were properly documented
in the changelog).
Ensure you have the following snippets in your Nginx or Apache configuration
if you plan to use the Subsonic API.
Nginx::
location /rest/ {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/api/subsonic/rest/;
}
Apache2::
<Location "/rest">
ProxyPass ${funkwhale-api}/api/subsonic/rest
ProxyPassReverse ${funkwhale-api}/api/subsonic/rest
</Location>

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0.13
0.13 (2018-05-19)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Features:
- Can now import and play flac files (#157)
- Simpler permission system (#152)
- Store file length, size and bitrate (#195)
- We now have a brand new instance settings interface in the front-end (#206)
Enhancements:
- Disabled browsable HTML API in production (#205)
- Instances can now indicate on the nodeinfo endpoint if they want to remain
private (#200)
Bugfixes:
- .well-known/nodeinfo endpoint can now answer to request with Accept:
application/json (#197)
- Fixed escaping issue of track name in playlist modal (#201)
- Fixed missing dot when downloading file (#204)
- In-place imported tracks with non-ascii characters don't break reverse-proxy
serving (#196)
- Removed Python 3.6 dependency (secrets module) (#198)
- Uplayable tracks are now properly disabled in the interface (#199)
Instance settings interface
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Prior to this release, the only way to update instance settings (such as
instance description, signup policy, federation configuration, etc.) was using
the admin interface provided by Django (the back-end framework which power the API).
This interface worked, but was not really-user friendly and intuitive.
Starting from this release, we now offer a dedicated interface directly
in the front-end. You can view and edit all your instance settings from here,
assuming you have the required permissions.
This interface is available at ``/manage/settings` and via link in the sidebar.
Storage of bitrate, size and length in database
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Starting with this release, when importing files, Funkwhale will store
additional information about audio files:
- Bitrate
- Size (in bytes)
- Duration
This change is not retroactive, meaning already imported files will lack those
informations. The interface and API should work as before in such case, however,
we offer a command to deal with legacy files and populate the missing values.
On docker setups:
.. code-block:: shell
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py fix_track_files
On non-docker setups:
.. code-block:: shell
# from your activated virtualenv
python manage.py fix_track_files
.. note::
The execution time for this command is proportional to the number of
audio files stored on your instance. This is because we need to read the
files from disk to fetch the data. You can run it in the background
while Funkwhale is up.
It's also safe to interrupt this command and rerun it at a later point, or run
it multiple times.
Use the --dry-run flag to check how many files would be impacted.
Simpler permission system
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Starting from this release, the permission system is much simpler. Up until now,
we were using Django's built-in permission system, which was working, but also
quite complex to deal with.
The new implementation relies on simpler logic, which will make integration
on the front-end in upcoming releases faster and easier.
If you have manually given permissions to users on your instance,
you can migrate those to the new system.
On docker setups:
.. code-block:: shell
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py script django_permissions_to_user_permissions --no-input
On non-docker setups:
.. code-block:: shell
# in your virtualenv
python api/manage.py script django_permissions_to_user_permissions --no-input
There is still no dedicated interface to manage user permissions, but you
can use the admin interface at ``/api/admin/users/user/`` for that purpose in
the meantime.

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0.12
0.12 (2018-05-09)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Features:
- Subsonic API implementation to offer compatibility with existing clients such
as DSub (#75)
- Use nodeinfo standard for publishing instance information (#192)
Enhancements:
- Play button now play tracks immediately instead of appending them to the
queue (#99, #156)
Bugfixes:
- Fix broken federated import (#193)
Documentation:
- Up-to-date documentation for upgrading front-end files on docker setup (#132)
Subsonic API
^^^^^^^^^^^^
This release implements some core parts of the Subsonic API, which is widely
deployed in various projects and supported by numerous clients.
By offering this API in Funkwhale, we make it possible to access the instance
library and listen to the music without from existing Subsonic clients, and
without developping our own alternative clients for each and every platform.
Most advanced Subsonic clients support offline caching of music files,
playlist management and search, which makes them well-suited for nomadic use.
Please head over :doc:`users/apps` for more informations about supported clients
and user instructions.
At the instance-level, the Subsonic API is enabled by default, but require
and additional endpoint to be added in you reverse-proxy configuration.
On nginx, add the following block::
location /rest/ {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/api/subsonic/rest/;
}
On Apache, add the following block::
<Location "/rest">
ProxyPass ${funkwhale-api}/api/subsonic/rest
ProxyPassReverse ${funkwhale-api}/api/subsonic/rest
</Location>
The Subsonic can be disabled at the instance level from the django admin.
.. note::
Because of Subsonic's API design which assumes cleartext storing of
user passwords, we chose to have a dedicated, separate password
for that purpose. Users can generate this password from their
settings page in the web client.
Nodeinfo standard for instance information and stats
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.. warning::
The ``/api/v1/instance/stats/`` endpoint which was used to display
instance data in the about page is removed in favor of the new
``/api/v1/instance/nodeinfo/2.0/`` endpoint.
In earlier version, we where using a custom endpoint and format for
our instance information and statistics. While this was working,
this was not compatible with anything else on the fediverse.
We now offer a nodeinfo 2.0 endpoint which provides, in a single place,
all the instance information such as library and user activity statistics,
public instance settings (description, registration and federation status, etc.).
We offer two settings to manage nodeinfo in your Funkwhale instance:
1. One setting to completely disable nodeinfo, but this is not recommended
as the exposed data may be needed to make some parts of the front-end
work (especially the about page).
2. One setting to disable only usage and library statistics in the nodeinfo
endpoint. This is useful if you want the nodeinfo endpoint to work,
but don't feel comfortable sharing aggregated statistics about your library
and user activity.
To make your instance fully compatible with the nodeinfo protocol, you need to
to edit your nginx configuration file:
.. code-block::
# before
...
location /.well-known/webfinger {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/.well-known/webfinger;
}
...
# after
...
location /.well-known/ {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/.well-known/;
}
...
You can do the same if you use apache:
.. code-block::
# before
...
<Location "/.well-known/webfinger">
ProxyPass ${funkwhale-api}/.well-known/webfinger
ProxyPassReverse ${funkwhale-api}/.well-known/webfinger
</Location>
...
# after
...
<Location "/.well-known/">
ProxyPass ${funkwhale-api}/.well-known/
ProxyPassReverse ${funkwhale-api}/.well-known/
</Location>
...
This will ensure all well-known endpoints are proxied to funkwhale, and
not just webfinger one.
Links:
- About nodeinfo: https://github.com/jhass/nodeinfo

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0.11
0.11 (unreleased)
-----------------
Upgrade instructions are available at https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html
Special thanks for this release go to @renon:matrix.org (@Hazmo on Gitlab)
for bringing Apache2 support to Funkwhale and contributing on other issues.
Thank you!
Features:
- Funkwhale now works behind an Apache2 reverse proxy (!165)
check out the brand new documentation at https://docs.funkwhale.audio/installation/index.html#apache2
if you want to try it!
- Users can now request password reset by email, assuming a SMTP server was
correctly configured (#187)
Enhancements:
- Added a fix_track_files command to run checks and fixes against library
(#183)
- Avoid fetching Actor object on every request authentication
- Can now relaunch errored jobs and batches (#176)
- List pending requests by default, added a status filter for requests (#109)
- More structured menus in sidebar, added labels with notifications
- Sample virtual-host file for Apache2 reverse-proxy (!165)
- Store high-level settings (such as federation or auth-related ones) in
database (#186)
Bugfixes:
- Ensure in place imported files get a proper mimetype (#183)
- Federation cache suppression is now simpler and also deletes orphaned files
(#189)
- Fixed small UI glitches/bugs in federation tabs (#184)
- X-sendfile not working with in place import (#182)
Documentation:
- Added a documentation area for third-party projects (#180)
- Added documentation for optimizing Funkwhale and reduce its memory footprint.
- Document that the database should use an utf-8 encoding (#185)
- Foundations for API documentation with Swagger (#178)
Database storage for high-level settings
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Due to the work done in #186, the following environment variables have been
deprecated:
- FEDERATION_ENABLED
- FEDERATION_COLLECTION_PAGE_SIZE
- FEDERATION_MUSIC_NEEDS_APPROVAL
- FEDERATION_ACTOR_FETCH_DELAY
- PLAYLISTS_MAX_TRACKS
- API_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED
Configuration for this settings has been moved to database, as it will provide
a better user-experience, by allowing you to edit these values on-the-fly,
without restarting Funkwhale processes.
You can leave those environment variables in your .env file for now, as the
values will be used to populate the database entries. We'll make a proper
announcement when the variables won't be used anymore.
Please browse https://docs.funkwhale.audio/configuration.html#instance-settings
for more information about instance configuration using the web interface.
System emails
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Starting from this release, Funkwhale will send two types
of emails:
- Email confirmation emails, to ensure a user's email is valid
- Password reset emails, enabling user to reset their password without an admin's intervention
Email sending is disabled by default, as it requires additional configuration.
In this mode, emails are simply outputed on stdout.
If you want to actually send those emails to your users, you should edit your
.env file and tweak the EMAIL_CONFIG variable. See :ref:`setting-EMAIL_CONFIG`
for more details.
.. note::
As a result of these changes, the DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND variable,
which was not documented, has no effect anymore. You can safely remove it from
your .env file if it is set.
Proxy headers for non-docker deployments
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For non-docker deployments, add ``--proxy-headers`` at the end of the ``daphne``
command in :file:`/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-server.service`.
This will ensure the application receive the correct IP address from the client
and not the proxy's one.

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0.10
0.10 (2018-04-23)
-----------------
Features:
- Can now import files in-place from the CLI importer (#155)
Enhancements:
- Avoid downloading audio files multiple times from remote libraries (#163)
- Better file import performance and error handling (#144)
- Import job and batch API and front-end have been improved with better
performance, pagination and additional filters (#171)
- Increased max_length on TrackFile.source, this will help when importing files
with a really long path (#142)
- Player is back in Queue tab (#150)
Bugfixes:
- Fail graciously when AP representation includes a null_value for mediaType
- Fix sidebar tabs not showing under small resolution under Chrome (#173)
- Fixed broken login due to badly configured Axios (#172)
- Fixed broken playlist modal after login (#155)
- Fixed queue reorder or track deletion restarting currently playing track
(#151)
- Radio will now append new track if you delete the last track in queue (#145)
- Reset all sensitive front-end data on logout (#124)
- Typos/not showing text due to i18n work (#175)
Documentation:
- Better documentation for hardware requirements and memory usage (#165)
In-place import
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This release includes in-place imports for the CLI import. This means you can
load gigabytes of music into funkwhale without worrying about about Funkwhale
copying those music files in its internal storage and eating your disk space.
`This new feature is documented here <https://docs.funkwhale.audio/importing-music.html#in-place-import>`_
and require additional configuration to ensure funkwhale and your webserver can
serve those files properly.
**Non-docker users:**
Assuming your music is stored in ``/srv/funkwhale/data/music``, add the following
block to your nginx configuration::
location /_protected/music {
internal;
alias /srv/funkwhale/data/music;
}
And the following to your .env file::
MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH=/srv/funkwhale/data/music
**Docker users:**
Assuming your music is stored in ``/srv/funkwhale/data/music``, add the following
block to your nginx configuration::
location /_protected/music {
internal;
alias /srv/funkwhale/data/music;
}
Assuming you have the following volume directive in your ``docker-compose.yml``
(it's the default): ``/srv/funkwhale/data/music:/music:ro``, then add
the following to your .env file::
# this is the path in the container
MUSIC_DIRECTORY_PATH=/music
# this is the path on the host
MUSIC_DIRECTORY_SERVE_PATH=/srv/funkwhale/data/music

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0.9
0.9 (2018-04-17)
----------------
Features:
- Add internationalization support (#5)
- Can now follow and import music from remote libraries (#136, #137)
Enhancements:
- Added a i18n-extract yarn script to extract strings to PO files (#162)
- User admin now includes signup and last login dates (#148)
- We now use a proper user agent including instance version and url during
outgoing requests
Federation is here!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is for real this time, and includes:
- Following other Funkwhale libraries
- Importing tracks from remote libraries (tracks are hotlinked, and only cached for a short amount of time)
- Searching accross federated catalogs
Note that by default, federation is opt-in, on a per-instance basis:
instances will request access to your catalog, and you can accept or refuse
those requests. You can also revoke the access at any time.
Documentation was updated with relevant instructions to use and benefit
from this new feature: https://docs.funkwhale.audio/federation.html
Preparing internationalization
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Funkwhale's front-end as always been english-only, and this is a barrier
to new users. The work make Funkwhale's interface translatable was started
in this release by Baptiste. Although nothing is translated yet,
this release includes behind the stage changes that will make it possible in
the near future.
Many thank to Baptiste for the hard work and for figuring out a proper solution
to this difficult problem.
Upgrade path
^^^^^^^^^^^^
In addition to the usual instructions from
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/upgrading.html, non-docker users will have
to setup an additional systemd unit file for recurrent tasks.
This was forgotten in the deployment documentation, but recurrent tasks,
managed by the celery beat process, will be needed more and more in subsequent
releases. Right now, we'll be using to clear the cache for federated music files
and keep disk usage to a minimum.
In the future, they will also be needed to refetch music metadata or federated
information periodically.
Celery beat can be enabled easily::
curl -L -o "/etc/systemd/system/funkwhale-beat.service" "https://code.eliotberriot.com/funkwhale/funkwhale/raw/develop/deploy/funkwhale-beat.service"
# Also edit /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target
# and ensure the Wants= line contains the following:
# Wants=funkwhale-server.service funkwhale-worker.service funkwhale-beat.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/funkwhale.target
# reload configuration
systemctl daemon-reload
Docker users already have celerybeat enabled.

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0.8
0.8 (2018-04-02)
----------------
Features:
- Add a detail page for radios (#64)
- Implemented page title binding (#1)
- Previous Track button restart playback after 3 seconds (#146)
Enhancements:
- Added credits to Francis Gading for the logotype (#101)
- API endpoint for fetching instance activity and updated timeline to use this
new endpoint (#141)
- Better error messages in case of missing environment variables (#140)
- Implemented a @test@yourfunkwhaledomain bot to ensure federation works
properly. Send it "/ping" and it will answer back :)
- Queue shuffle now apply only to tracks after the current one (#97)
- Removed player from queue tab and consistently show current track in queue
(#131)
- We now restrict some usernames from being used during signup (#139)
Bugfixes:
- Better error handling during file import (#120)
- Better handling of utf-8 filenames during file import (#138)
- Converted favicon from .ico to .png (#130)
- Upgraded to Python 3.6 to fix weird but harmless weakref error on django task
(#121)
Documentation:
- Documented the upgrade process (#127)
Preparing for federation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Federation of music libraries is one of the most asked feature.
While there is still a lot of work to do, this version includes
the foundation that will enable funkwhale servers to communicate
between each others, and with other federated software, such as
Mastodon.
Funkwhale will use ActivityPub as it's federation protocol.
In order to prepare for federation (see #136 and #137), new API endpoints
have been added under /federation and /.well-known/webfinger.
For these endpoints to work, you will need to update your nginx configuration,
and add the following snippets::
location /federation/ {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/federation/;
}
location /.well-known/webfinger {
include /etc/nginx/funkwhale_proxy.conf;
proxy_pass http://funkwhale-api/.well-known/webfinger;
}
This will ensure federation endpoints will be reachable in the future.
You can of course skip this part if you know you will not federate your instance.
A new ``FEDERATION_ENABLED`` env var have also been added to control wether
federation is enabled or not on the application side. This settings defaults
to True, which should have no consequencies at the moment, since actual
federation is not implemented and the only available endpoints are for
testing purposes.
Add ``FEDERATION_ENABLED=false`` to your .env file to disable federation
on the application side.
The last step involves generating RSA private and public keys for signing
your instance requests on the federation. This can be done via::
# on docker setups
docker-compose run --rm api python manage.py generate_keys --no-input
# on non-docker setups
source /srv/funkwhale/virtualenv/bin/activate
source /srv/funkwhale/load_env
python manage.py generate_keys --no-input
To test and troobleshoot federation, we've added a bot account. This bot is available at @test@yourinstancedomain,
and sending it "/ping", for example, via Mastodon, should trigger
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0.7
0.7 (2018-03-21)
----------------
Features:
- Can now filter artists and albums with no listenable tracks (#114)
- Improve the style of the sidebar to make it easier to understand which tab is
selected (#118)
- On artist page, albums are not sorted by release date, if any (#116)
- Playlists are here \o/ :tada: (#3, #93, #94)
- Use django-cacheops to cache common ORM requests (#117)
Bugfixes:
- Fixed broken import request admin (#115)
- Fixed forced redirection to login event with
API_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED=False (#119)
- Fixed position not being reseted properly when playing the same track
multiple times in a row
- Fixed synchronized start/stop radio buttons for all custom radios (#103)
- Fixed typo and missing icon on homepage (#96)
Documentation:
- Up-to-date and complete development and contribution instructions in
README.rst (#123)

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0.6
0.6 (2018-03-04)
----------------
Features:
- Basic activity stream for listening and favorites (#23)
- Switched to django-channels and daphne for serving HTTP and websocket (#34)
Upgrades notes
**************
This version contains breaking changes in the way funkwhale is deployed,
please read the notes carefully.
Instance timeline
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A new "Activity" page is now available from the sidebar, where you can
browse your instance activity. At the moment, this includes other users
favorites and listening, but more activity types will be implemented in the
future.
Internally, we implemented those events by following the Activity Stream
specification, which will help us to be compatible with other networks
in the long-term.
A new settings page has been added to control the visibility of your activity.
By default, your activity will be browsable by anyone on your instance,
but you can switch to a full private mode where nothing is shared.
The setting form is available in your profile.
Switch from gunicorn to daphne
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This release include an important change in the way we serve the HTTP API.
To prepare for new realtime features and enable websocket support in Funkwhale,
we are now using django-channels and daphne to serve HTTP and websocket traffic.
This replaces gunicorn and the switch should be easy assuming you
follow the upgrade process described bellow.
If you are using docker, please remove the command instruction inside the
api service, as the up-to-date command is now included directly in the image
as the default entry point:
.. code-block:: yaml
api:
restart: unless-stopped
image: funkwhale/funkwhale:${FUNKWHALE_VERSION:-latest}
command: ./compose/django/gunicorn.sh # You can remove this line
On non docker setups, you'll have to update the [Service] block of your
funkwhale-server systemd unit file to launch the application server using daphne instead of gunicorn.
The new configuration should be similar to this:
.. code-block:: ini
[Service]
User=funkwhale
# adapt this depending on the path of your funkwhale installation
WorkingDirectory=/srv/funkwhale/api
EnvironmentFile=/srv/funkwhale/config/.env
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/daphne -b ${FUNKWHALE_API_IP} -p ${FUNKWHALE_API_PORT} config.asgi:application
Ensure you update funkwhale's dependencies as usual to install the required
packages.
On both docker and non-docker setup, you'll also have to update your nginx
configuration for websocket support. Ensure you have the following blocks
included in your virtualhost file:
.. code-block:: txt
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default upgrade;
'' close;
}
server {
...
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
}
Remember to reload your nginx server after the edit.